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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:20:55 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Patch: chown() preparation for symlinks
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> access does much more than just a simple call to _chmod inside
> __file_exists.  In particular, it calls findfirst to support root
> directories and devices.  Do we really need all that stuff for chown,
> which is just a no-op?  

Of course, we don't need that.

> Perhaps it is better to resolve symlinks
> inside chown?

Or maybe it is better to optimize access() for F_OK case?

Laurynas